Larger scale question: With this merge would it make sense to evaluate copr for CentOS SIGs? It has native support for "This repo depends on this other repo". Fedora DNF has a copr plugin which could be useful in prep for RHEL8. Pat On 10/25/2018 11:25 AM, Jim Perrin wrote: > In August, the CentOS Project and Fedora announced the intention to > combine their dist-git sources, and since then Fabian Arrotin of CentOS > and Patrick Uiterwijk of Fedora have worked to make that happen. Last > week at the CERN dojo, they demonstrated this work, and today we’d like > to welcome community testing of it. We’ll be keeping this content > updated, so you'll be able to continue to track sources appropriately. > > You can help us by testing the new system, providing feedback, and > contributing additional tooling to help improve the overall state of the > project. > > > Structure: > > Currently git.stg.centos.org and src.stg.fedoraproject.org are linked > via RepoSpanner[1], and sharing common repositories. Packagers for the > roughly 6700 common packages in both communities will see the additional > branches.. > > For the Fedora community, there should be no changes required for the > day to day operation of dist-git or packaging. > > CentOS community members will note that the platform change to pagure > brings a variety of new features, including a new API[2] , a new UI, > pull requests, and issue tracking. The current tooling for CentOS > sources will continue to work (after updating to the staging server) and > we plan to add support for tooling for centpkg, which would mirror the > functionality found in fedpkg. > > In the coming weeks we'll be putting out documentation around the > expected uses for pull requests, and the issue tracking features within > pagure, as we don't intend it to replace bugs.centos.org. > > > > Permissions and ownership: > > There are protections enabled to prevent either community from > accidentally overwriting code from the other, so only CentOS community > members will be able to push to c#-* branches, while only Fedora > community members can push to f#*/epel#* branches. With the new dynamic > ACL validation in place, CentOS SIG members will automatically get the > rights to push on their specific branches. > > While the repositories and content are shared between the communities, > authentication is not. To push to c# branches, you will have to > authenticate against accounts.centos.org. Similarly Fedora community > members will continue to authenticate against accounts.fedoraproject.org. > > > 1. https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_repoSpanner_repoSpanner&d=DwIGaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=OAMtP0DWou0nlXG7Kmxo2enjXJfwb1DXS9fwcaESuTE&m=tN30jLNQUA_3ObunvFtze7SRlSuf6Fb7hw_-u1ICuEE&s=K4ptnci4T_l8sefxynoicf9f4prudYeY-A95N8vnF84&e= > 2. https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__git.stg.centos.org_api_0_&d=DwIGaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=OAMtP0DWou0nlXG7Kmxo2enjXJfwb1DXS9fwcaESuTE&m=tN30jLNQUA_3ObunvFtze7SRlSuf6Fb7hw_-u1ICuEE&s=u-a90AeWQ2jHORuxBGzzpatTc5YtTNzzJJUt6-kybOc&e= > > > -- Pat Riehecky Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory www.fnal.gov www.scientificlinux.org